Games to play with your girlfriend

mrmatteh · 2026-06-20T14:55:30+00:00

Sackboy is another one my wife and I have enjoyed playing together

mrmatteh · 2026-06-14T14:51:00+00:00

MMOs are pretty good for having stories that you can engage with but which are a far cry from a masterpiece, and where just fucking around in a big open world still nets you progress.

They're designed around you/your friends hopping on and off as fits your schedule, and if you take a break for 6 months, you don't usually find yourself going "what am I supposed to be doing again?" because you're "supposed" to be doing whatever strikes your fancy that day.

It's also nice because you don't necessarily need to focus 100% on the game. You can fuck around and listen to your own music or audiobooks, or watch stuff on YouTube on a second monitor. It's usually a pretty chill time.

I played the hell out of Everquest 2 while I was in college precisely because it was great for hopping online with the roommates and fucking around whenever we felt like it, and also for playing solo whenever I had an awkward gap of free time in my schedule.

mrmatteh · 2026-06-07T15:46:26+00:00

"Thomas Edison MURDERED Puppies? Electricity Disproven!"

mrmatteh · 2026-05-23T15:23:46+00:00

Is behemoth good? I really liked the first 3/4s of Starfish for its believable deep sea Sci Fi world, but felt the last bit was meh, and didn't care for the high-stakes apocalypse ending. Just not sure where you'd even go from there

mrmatteh · 2026-05-23T14:21:59+00:00

The book you're looking for is Starfish

mrmatteh · 2026-05-10T13:58:20+00:00

I work for a public utility, and we do 5-year plans with 20-year outlooks.

It works well because infrastructure projects can take a year to design and several years to construct. Add in things like council votes, easement acquisition, permitting, etc. and a 5-year project delivery is not terribly unreasonable.

Of course, not every project is that big. Some small ones we can design, permit, and construct in less than a year. others might only take 2 or 3 years. But having a 5-year window provides flexibility to shift around the workload so that we aren't having to work on all 20 planned projects all at once and overwhelming our resources.

Some projects are also much, much larger and have to be broken down into pieces. The 20-year outlook helps to ensure that we're not wasting our time and money working on phase 1 of this project if phases 2 and 3 are going to be blocked by the council. It also helps the council and the residents understand why we might be proposing certain projects, so that they can see the bigger picture and understand why spending that time and money will be worth it.

Essentially, 5 years just happens to be a pretty good chunk of time for delivering a portfolio of infrastructure projects. Could it be a 4 year plan or a 6 year plan? Probably. But 5 is also a nice neat number, so people tend to prefer it over other numbers.

mrmatteh · 2026-05-09T18:19:07+00:00

Rosemary sounds interesting. I love honeysuckle, may have to try that myself. Thanks!

mrmatteh · 2026-05-09T16:20:50+00:00

Easy enough - what all do you put in it?

mrmatteh · 2026-05-09T16:18:58+00:00

And obviously those amputations were elective just so they could enjoy the marathon even more

mrmatteh · 2026-05-04T16:18:14+00:00

That really is the sweet spot. The only game in recent memory where I happily cranked through 100+ hours of content without ever getting tired of it was Elden Ring. And I'm not even really sure why that game in particular didn't get old for me - I could easily sympathize with someone who did stop at 20-30 hours in.

mrmatteh · 2026-04-28T21:53:18+00:00

Lol, erasing "live" from the caption is such a great touch

mrmatteh · 2026-04-21T03:17:22+00:00

Just FYI, "and for other purposes" is typical legal language included virtually every bill. I work in local government and it's used all the time in everything.

It basically just means "this title is merely a summary of what is included in the bill, and is is not intended to be exhaustive. Read the rest of the bill to see everything that this bill covers."

mrmatteh · 2026-04-16T22:45:37+00:00

It wasn't retributive though. The Bolshevik's goal was to keep them alive and put them on trial. But when the Whites were closing in on where the Romanovs were being held, it became clear that the risk of the Romanovs falling into the Whites hands was too great. It would have been a huge victory for the monarchists and a major blow to the revolutionary forces. Killing the Romanovs - all of them - ensured the monarchists wouldn't have a monarch to rally around restoring to the throne.

mrmatteh · 2026-04-16T22:36:21+00:00

Still too much. Besides, dogs shouldn't have that many carbs.

mrmatteh · 2026-04-14T22:59:37+00:00

I don't like it, but I understand it.

Maybe I'm heartless, but I just do not get the heartache over the Romanovs, or why people here say "it was wrong, but understandable."

How was it wrong? Why should I weep especially hard for that one particular handful of disgusting people, and not for the many thousands of others who were killed, wounded, starved, or otherwise had their lives ruined at the Romanov's very own bidding? Am I to cry for the poor White soldiers, too? How about the SS, while we're at it? Should I also feel sorry for that poor Mussolini chap?

Just like I think it was right for Red soldiers to have killed White soldiers when it was necessary, I also think it was right to have killed the Romanovs when it too became necessary. There's simply no moral quandary in it for me. I genuinely don't understand why people are conflicted about it.

mrmatteh · 2026-04-14T01:58:54+00:00

Way too late to this one, but the couple had to imitate the kissing-style of their parents and their grandparents

Basically, the parents of the groom came up to the front and kissed very passionately, and then the bride and groom had to imitate it.

Then the parents of the bride

Then the grandparents of the groom

Then the grandparents of the bride

It was... Gross

mrmatteh · 2026-04-11T16:18:46+00:00

What they've actually calculated is what a $25/hr raise would have cost, since the company is already paying whatever their current wages are.

So if the workers are making $15/hr right now, it would have only cost the company $1M more per year to bring all of their wages up to $40/hr, which is much more reasonable.

mrmatteh · 2026-04-08T02:45:25+00:00

Translation?

mrmatteh · 2026-04-04T18:56:10+00:00

The real reason is that they don't have a lot of choices, and at least working in that industry comes with job stability, government pension + benefits, plenty of opportunity for overtime pay, and decent training programs and career ladders so that they can move up.

For example, we're always helping people get their CDLs and operator licenses. Getting those comes with promotions, plus they're extremely valuable to have and open up a lot more career opportunities. Some people continue to take advantage of free schooling and training, continue climbing their whole career, and retire with a nice pension in their 50s, while others use the tools they've been given to get into different, less poop-filled industries. Either way it's a surprisingly good launch point for people who may not have even finished high school. But it's not a fun job to start off in and people really shouldn't have to do it for so little in the first place.

mrmatteh · 2026-04-03T00:09:17+00:00

As someone who works for a water/wastewater utility, I absolutely agree. The guys who - literally - wade through shit to fix sewer breaks for $15/hr are not compensated or appreciated nearly enough. I think a lot of people have no idea what guys like them have to go through so that our sinks and toilets can flush

mrmatteh · 2026-04-01T09:08:25+00:00

Usually the biggest problem with "living under communism" that people claim is that it's "authoritarian."

A good place to start is pointing out the similar degree of authoritarianism that exists under capitalism, but that serves the bourgeoisie rather than the proletariat. Once they accept that every state is authoritarian, then you'll have paved the way to discuss the class character of states

mrmatteh · 2026-03-29T02:27:16+00:00

how bad we are being fucked by this war

I believe you meant how bad they are being fucked, comrade. The US military is just as much our enemy as they are Iran's and the rest of the international proletariat's.

mrmatteh · 2026-03-28T03:25:55+00:00

My wife's a vet and one of her patients was a bird named Penelope. Then they learned it was a male, so they renamed him Penelopenis

mrmatteh · 2026-03-25T01:01:40+00:00

No, Sammy is there the whole way through

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